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Sitter i Bergen og prøver å lage blogg, men kartet blei helt mongo når jeg prøvde å få Bergen opp på kartet..
Forberedelsene er i gang!
Skolen er i orden, leiligheten er leid ut, billetten er bestilt, spanskskolen er søkt på og lånekassen har mottatt ...

- Barbecue at the one of the student`s dormitory. - THE song: We had to perform a song this evening in front of alle the first year students. The song was our invention. We were just given a couple of words and had to make up everything else. Here`s the practise..... :)

Here are some pictures from the opnening ceremony, the treisure hunt and the party in the evening. The treisure hunt was organized by the students comitee. Every class had "Fadere" -> mentors or guides. We went through Notodden and had to fullfill differnt tasks. Very funny! :)

... Friday morning we will travel on to to Sweden. Gothenburg is only three and a half hours away by train. Our taxi driver Karl Roland picked us up promptly at 7:30 am. We really like his personable nature. Again, the taxi meter is intere$ting. After we load up our luggage, the meter starts at $11 dollars. What's it going to cost to the train station this time? Bruce has a non-stop conversation going with him ...

... during the winter. In fact, the route was only opened on Monday. Since we drove there and back the same way, we had our photo and tourist stops pre-planned. We visited the Heddal Stavkirke (the largest one in Norway), stopped at two waterfalls, saw the Telemark Canal and got some really cool snow photos out of the car window.

I found out yesterday that Paul is sick and so we won't be going to his mountain cabin. Instead, we are going to meet up with a group and board at Kongsberg Skisenter. The highlight of the day is my epic wipe-out. I was coming down this bump/hill that has a steep backside when I saw someone standing right in my way. Having almost no time to react, I turn to the side and try to stop, which is difficult to do ...

I'm supposed to stay in Oslo for the weekend. But plans change. Instead, Thomas meets me at the train station and we take a bus to his home in the middle of Telemark County - a rural area of Norway. I start off the next day at his parent's place in Flatdal. I'm pretty sure that translates into Flat Valley, for the scenic valley here. I get some exercise when we walk up the ...

... trip on the steamers with a bike ride back through Telemark. Now that is something I'd love to do one of these days.... Heddal - Stave Church and Folk museum Just an hour or so up the road was Heddal, which has one of the largest stave churches in Norway. The church is amazing, and it is still in use by the community today. It was built originally for the Catholic church in the 13th century, though there have been modifications ...

... kjøre til Sandefjorde, for så å ta ferga derfra til Strømstad i Sverige. Vi spiste middag i Varberg ettefulgt av den ganske så lang reise gjennom Sverige. Når vi ankom København i Danmark på kvelden var det på tide med en ny båt. Denne skulle ta oss med til Polen, og på den skulle vi overnatte. Fikk kveldsmat ombord.

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I 1992 startet Helga Arntzen foreningen Hvite Busser til Auschwitz. Dette ble senere en Stiftelse. Formålet var å gi en effektiv vaksine mot nynazisme i Norge. I 1998 startet Helga Arntzen så Aktive Fredsreiser. I tillegg til arbeide mot nynazisme fokuserer Aktive Fredsreiser også på menneskerettigheter og fredsskapende prosesser. Aktive ...